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IvCNuB4 wrote:Actually, Sinestro spared two Guardians. He never told anyone except Larfleeze about Ganthet. When Arkillo goes to Atrocitus and says "he saved one for you" that is not Ganthet. What happened then is played out in full over in Red Lanterns #20.

Oh, ok then. I'm not reading any of the other GL titles, so that part was a bit confusing to me, I didn't know if Arkillo was betraying Sinestro or not in that scene. Any spoilers on who it was and what happened?

Punchy wrote:Come on, a run this long in this day and age is something to be acclaimed.

Or decried, given that his ideas during the run were:

"Let's severely overextend the Lantern idea and ruin its uniqueness by giving EVERY color of the rainbow AND black AND white their own Lanterns! 'Less is more'?? 'If everyone's special, no one is special'?? Never heard of any of that advice!"

"Let's see just how insular the GLs can get, by having them only deal with Lantern-based problems like the Manhunters, the Guardians, and ESPECIALLY the other Lantern Corps! Just let Evil Star and all the other non-Lantern GL adversaries run amok all over the universe! Why would the GLs care??"

"Hal and Sinestro! My BFF's Hal and Sinestro! Oh, and Baz! John Stewart?? Oh, he's 'Hal's partner'! He's meaningful, sure!" *whistles innocently as he pushes John under the rug with one foot, and proceeds to ignore him for 4 years straight*

Sorry, not impressed. Seems to me his 8 years ran about 4 years too long...

"Let's severely overextend the Lantern idea and ruin its uniqueness by giving EVERY color of the rainbow AND black AND white their own Lanterns! 'Less is more'?? 'If everyone's special, no one is special'?? Never heard of any of that advice!"

"Let's see just how insular the GLs can get, by having them only deal with Lantern-based problems like the Manhunters, the Guardians, and ESPECIALLY the other Lantern Corps! Just let Evil Star and all the other non-Lantern GL adversaries run amok all over the universe! Why would the GLs care??"

"Hal and Sinestro! My BFF's Hal and Sinestro! Oh, and Baz! John Stewart?? Oh, he's 'Hal's partner'! He's meaningful, sure!" *whistles innocently as he pushes John under the rug with one foot, and proceeds to ignore him for 4 years straight*

Sorry, not impressed. Seems to me his 8 years ran about 4 years too long...

Except that is oversimplifying what Johns has actually done on the title during is run. I don't normally like nuRama's Top 10 lists but they did publish a pretty good list of some of the things that Geoff Johns accomplished while writing the title:

In particular one of my favorite additions was the fact that not anyone can put on a ring and use it. Yes, Geoff Johns made some questionable contributions to the GL mythology (I'm looking at you Alpha Lanterns) but as a whole, he really took the time to craft a bright, vibrant universe for the characters to exist in. Before Johns took over, the Green Lantern franchise was stale and was at the fringes of the DC Universe. Since Johns took over, the title and all subsequent titles have consistently been some of the best selling titles published by DC. Johns set out to make Green Lantern one of the most important characters in the DC Universe and now they are.

"Let's severely overextend the Lantern idea and ruin its uniqueness by giving EVERY color of the rainbow AND black AND white their own Lanterns! 'Less is more'?? 'If everyone's special, no one is special'?? Never heard of any of that advice!"

"Let's see just how insular the GLs can get, by having them only deal with Lantern-based problems like the Manhunters, the Guardians, and ESPECIALLY the other Lantern Corps! Just let Evil Star and all the other non-Lantern GL adversaries run amok all over the universe! Why would the GLs care??"

"Hal and Sinestro! My BFF's Hal and Sinestro! Oh, and Baz! John Stewart?? Oh, he's 'Hal's partner'! He's meaningful, sure!" *whistles innocently as he pushes John under the rug with one foot, and proceeds to ignore him for 4 years straight*

Sorry, not impressed. Seems to me his 8 years ran about 4 years too long...

Yeesh.

Look, I had my problems with Johns' run, but no matter the content, you have to respect that he wrote the title for 8 years and made it a top-seller for the first time in a long time.

Thanks to Johns, Green Lantern is now probably the 3rd biggest character in DC, thanks to Johns they made a movie.

You may not like these things (and nobody likes the movie) but you have to respect them.

Look, I had my problems with Johns' run, but no matter the content, you have to respect that he wrote the title for 8 years and made it a top-seller for the first time in a long time.

Thanks to Johns, Green Lantern is now probably the 3rd biggest character in DC, thanks to Johns they made a movie.

You may not like these things (and nobody likes the movie) but you have to respect them.

That's not saying much for DC, though.

"I have my heroes, but no one knows their names"- Sons of the Desert

Strict31 wrote:I'm not sure that combining the nigh-uncontrollable power of LOLtron with the Nacireman is a good idea. Some years from now, when mankind is on the verge of extinction, we'll be able to look back and remember this moment, and say, "DANG."

Herald wrote:Only because his name was on the title. Fanboys will buy a phone book if they stamp "written by Geoff Johns" on it.

Just watch what happens now that he's gone...

Just to be clear, when Geoff Johns wrote Green Lantern Rebirth and the following Green Lantern series, he wasn't as big of a name in the industry as he is today. If anything, writing Green Lantern is what propelled him to the level he is now. Having wrote Green Lantern and having elevated the character and his mythology to the top tier of DC is what allowed him to become the type of writer that people will follow and buy no matter what he is writing.

Grayson wrote:Just to be clear, when Geoff Johns wrote Green Lantern Rebirth and the following Green Lantern series, he wasn't as big of a name in the industry as he is today. If anything, writing Green Lantern is what propelled him to the level he is now. Having wrote Green Lantern and having elevated the character and his mythology to the top tier of DC is what allowed him to become the type of writer that people will follow and buy no matter what he is writing.

Incorrect. Geoff built his rep on JSA -- the 1999 series, not the later "Justice Society of America" -- and Flash. That was back when he was "the Geoff Johns ESF (and Herald) remembered".

You mentioned earlier that your experience with Sinestro is under Johns. Did you only start reading DC comics in the last 10 years??

Herald wrote:Incorrect. Geoff built his rep on JSA -- the 1999 series, not the later "Justice Society of America" -- and Flash. That was back when he was "the Geoff Johns ESF (and Herald) remembered".

Geoff was still building towards who he is today at that time. He still wasn't a comics superstar at the time that he took the reigns of Green Lantern. His JSA and Flash runs sold well but nothing like what he accomplished with Green Lantern.

You mentioned earlier that your experience with Sinestro is under Johns. Did you only start reading DC comics in the last 10 years??

Huh? I did?

Are you talking about:

I don't mind it for Sinestro because it works for the way that Johns has written Green Lantern since Rebirth.

Because if so, I was just commenting that I didn't mind the "humanizing" of Sinestro because it's something that has been in the works for awhile as opposed to something that just came out of the blue.

Grayson wrote:Geoff was still building towards who he is today at that time. He still wasn't a comics superstar at the time that he took the reigns of Green Lantern. His JSA and Flash runs sold well but nothing like what he accomplished with Green Lantern.

And his Green Lantern wouldn't have sold as well as it did if it wasn't An Important Book You Must Read in Order to Follow the DC Universe. His Aquaman sure isn't topping the charts anymore; why?? Because there won't be any Blackest Night-style universe-wide crossovers coming out of it.

I maintain that he became a superstar on JSA and Flash. Without them, he wouldn't have been allowed to bring back his pal Hal.

Because if so, I was just commenting that I didn't mind the "humanizing" of Sinestro because it's something that has been in the works for awhile as opposed to something that just came out of the blue.

But that still doesn't make Hal and Sinestro "always friends".

The question remains: Did you only start reading DC comics in the last 10 years??